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From: HamRadio on 29 Jan 2008 13:38 Hi there, I'd like to buy a webcam well supported in Linux (640x480 dpi and 1.3 Mpixel, perhaps with integrated microphone, should be enough for me). The problem is that vendors don't say anything about the chipset their webcams use, so how to figure out if a certain webcam is supported? Maybe asking here if anyone has had such an experience... :-) Is anyone using the Trust WB-3320X (http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15354) and/or the WB-3250p (http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15082)? Could anyone suggest me some other well supported model? Many thanks in advance. -- hamradio(a)toglimi.quipo.it ANTI-SPAM: please cut "toglimi." for my real e-mail address. Powered by Linux 2.6.20 on Debian Etch Registered Linux user #291116 http://counter.li.org
From: Shadow_7 on 29 Jan 2008 17:06 http://www.linux-usb.org/ http://www.linux-usb.org/devices.html#multi Trust appears to be supported. CPiA list1. http://www.linux1394.org/ http://wiki.linux1394.org/video1394 > Is anyone using the Trust WB-3320X > > (http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15354) > and/or the WB-3250p > > (http://www.trust.com/products/product_detail.aspx?item=15082)? Not that it's always applicable since vendors can switch the chipset in use without changing the model number or external design of the device. It's a lot easier to tell once you have the device as you can google on the vendor:device numbers. lsusb -n (just like lspci -n) I couldn't find those specific models. But I did find some earlier reviews on the lower model numbers that absolutely hated them for their low picture quality. Many of which got returned within a week of purchase. Not that that's applicable. YMMV
From: Calab on 1 Feb 2008 12:02 > On 29 Jan 2008 18:38:30 GMT, HamRadio <hamradio(a)remove.this.quipo.it> > wrote: > >>Hi there, >> >>I'd like to buy a webcam well supported in Linux (640x480 dpi and >>1.3 Mpixel, perhaps with integrated microphone, should be enough for me). >>The problem is that vendors don't say anything about the chipset their >>webcams use, so how to figure out if a certain webcam is supported? >>Maybe asking here if anyone has had such an experience... :-) I can't suggest anything in particular as I've had horrible luck... But I find that it's not the CAM part that's difficult, it's getting the microphone to work.
From: Arend van der Boom on 1 Feb 2008 03:20 On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:38:30 +0000, HamRadio wrote: > Hi there, > > I'd like to buy a webcam well supported in Linux (640x480 dpi and > 1.3 Mpixel, perhaps with integrated microphone, should be enough for me). > The problem is that vendors don't say anything about the chipset their > webcams use, so how to figure out if a certain webcam is supported? > Maybe asking here if anyone has had such an experience... :-) I have a Logitech QuickCam Messenger and although I 'see' an image the quality is bad. I also don't have any option to choose between resolution. Never got it working correctly. I also have a Sony Unibrain firewire camera and that works great. If you want use it as a webcam you will need to use the vloopback device to make it work via 4VL Just my E0.02 -- Arend van der Boom #-----//--$5699r--@#-~~~~~/\------------- Home : http://home.caiway.nl/~avdboom LCARS : http://lcarsscan.dyndns.org
From: Hactar on 1 Feb 2008 14:07
In article <pan.2008.02.01.08.20.21.776200(a)kabelfoon.invalid>, Arend van der Boom <avdboom(a)kabelfoon.invalid> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:38:30 +0000, HamRadio wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'd like to buy a webcam well supported in Linux (640x480 dpi and > > 1.3 Mpixel, perhaps with integrated microphone, should be enough for me). > > The problem is that vendors don't say anything about the chipset their > > webcams use, so how to figure out if a certain webcam is supported? > > Maybe asking here if anyone has had such an experience... :-) > > I have a Logitech QuickCam Messenger and although I 'see' an image the > quality is bad. I also don't have any option to choose between resolution. > Never got it working correctly. > > I also have a Sony Unibrain firewire camera and that works great. If you > want use it as a webcam you will need to use the vloopback device to make > it work via 4VL > > Just my E0.02 I have an Intel "Create and Share" (CS430) USB camera. All I've figured out to do with so far is view the image using XawTV. Is that it? What I'd like to do is feed it to some IM program and do video chat, but no multi-protocol IM programs do video AFAIK. Do they now? -- -eben QebWenE01R(a)vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81 An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. -Oscar Wilde |